The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University (NSU) has inaugurated its two-day long international conference in English Studies, titled ‘Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now’ on November 4 at NSU campus, a press release said Saturday.
Pro-VC and VC in-charge of NSU, Professor Dr. M. Ismail Hossain, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Dr. Abdur Rob Khan, Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages, Professor Dr. A.Q.M.A. Rahman Bhuiyan, keynote Speaker Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll, professor of English and the director of the Jones White Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, along with other academic luminaries from English departments in the country and around the world were present.
The conference brought together over 100 scholars and thinkers from 5 continents in North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia, working in the fields of language, literature, and TESOL.
Alongside Dr. Shireen Huq as moderator, Dr Deena P. Forkan, Dr Razia Sultana and Dr Niaz Zaman participated in a special session on ‘Bangladeshi Women Writing in English: Struggles and Fulfilment’.
